Hometown Rankin - February & May 2015

Team. Beginning in February, MES will implement additional
extracurricular activities based on the data collected and shared.
Students in the fifth and sixth grade will have the opportunity
to engage in additional extracurricular activities during the
school day.
McLaurin Elementary School Partnership Teams will
continue their efforts, working together to foster an environment
that empowers students.
Pelahatchie
Elementary
About ten years ago, Pelahatchie High School (grades 7-12)
created a program entitled Character Development to teach students
various traits of positive character development. The program
focused on traits such as courage, compassion, honesty, humility,
respect and responsibility. Our counselor met with 7th and 8th
graders throughout the year to teach and encourage these traits
within the student body.
Out of this program, Pelahatchie High School developed the
Character Club where every month a trait is emphasized for positive
character development. Every month during the school year, a
student from each grade is chosen who best represents the trait for
that month. The traits so far this year have been humility, courage,
honesty and respect. The students selected each month, as well as
their parents, are treated to lunch. So far this school year, the
following students have been selected: Anna Scherer, Katie Bayliss,
Carlie Edwards, Parker Garletts, Jalen Hurst, Daniel Stewart,
Kimberly Flores, Brock Wilson, Todd Jones, Walt Hamilton, Tabitha
Phillips, August Hall, Anna Grace Carter, Jamari Stokes, Lizzy Pinter,
Ashley Cannon, Sheldon Irvin, and Desmond McGee.
Emphasizing and instilling positive character development in our
students will serve them beyond their years at Pelahatchie High
School. Teaching our students responsibility, being accountable for
their words, actions and attitudes, will serve them well as they grow
into adulthood. We believe teaching character creates a positive
school atmosphere as well as a positive community in the future.
Richland High
Mrs. Krishna’s first-grade class has been working on a snowthemed
unit. The students have been reading poems about snow
and snowflakes, reading the book The Snowy Day, and thinking of
words to describe snowflakes, penguins, and Antarctica. The
students have really enjoyed using Snow Dough in math to practice
measuring.
As a writing project the students have been writing a narrative
story about what they would do if they lived in a snow globe. The
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